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Friday, 15 June 2007

Mountains of Our Mind

In starting off a new blog, I would like to post a poem I wrote in 1994 while working in Afghanistan. It is the title of one of my books, Mountains of our Mind - Afghanistan, published by tara press, New Delhi. The book can be purchased through the websites www.indiaresearchpressMountains of our Mind

From the courtyard of our dreamsTo the mountains of our mindWe escape the blood and violenceTo a white world sublime

Born on the edge of a cloudI saw snowflakes formTogether we danced a ring of fireBefore the day was born

We travel on a moonshipWhere lunacy dictatesWhere love is like a mountainAnd where there is no hate

We scud along the summit ridgeWhere the updrafts pushI am the King of KabulAnd lord the Hindu Kush